A City of Sadness [Paperback]

Berenice Reynaud (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0851709303 | ISBN-13: 978-0851709307 | Publication Date: January 22, 2008

This text introduces the Western audience to the richness of New Taiwanese Cinema. It revisits a painful episode in Taiwanese history, creating an elliptical and impressionistic picture of Chiang Kai-shek's takeover of the island after the defeat of his Kuomintang army by Mao Zedong.

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About the Author

Bérénice Reynaud is the author of Nouvelles Chines, nouveaux cinémas (1999) and has written extensively on Chinese cinema. She teaches at the California Institute of the Arts.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: British Film Institute (January 22, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0851709303
• ISBN-13: 978-0851709307
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #630,213 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Moving and artistic rendering of a dramatic time in Taiwan, November 24, 2011

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This review is from: A City of Sadness (Paperback)

This is a moving love story that serves as a conduit to illustrate the period right after WW II in Taiwan, when the Japanese colonial administration was replaced by the ruthless and corrupt rule of Chen Yi, a mainland administrator for Chiang Kai-shek. The infamous episodes of 2/28/47 are the background against which the story is set.

Taiwan later became an extraordinary success story and today it is a thriving democracy, but the end of Japanese colonial rule did not start under the best auspices...